MUP introduces undercover investigators

The Interior Ministry (MUP) is forming a special department of undercover investigators. “The formation of the department is under way. The exact number of undercover investigators and their identities will be kept completely confidential,” Supreme Court Judge Gligorije Spasojevic told Blic daily on Friday. MUP introduces undercover investigators Spasojevic has drafted an expert analysis of the legal provisions pertaining to the institute of undercover investigators. The State prosecutors’ media advisor, Tomo Zoric, said that thus far, undercover agents had been engaged in the investigation of the so-called road mafia case. The newspaper quoted its sources from MUP that police members had been training to become undercover investigators ever since the institute was included within the Criminal Code in 2001. Provisions pertaining to undercover investigators were amended in 2002. According to Spasojevic, the latest Criminal Code due to come into force in 2009, will contain these provisions as well, but some changes have to be made. “A convicted person can by no means become an undercover agent, this status can be assigned to a person belonging to another state’s police, or vice versa, meaning that our own investigators can operate undercover abroad,” he added. The new Criminal Code says that undercover investigators need not be MUP or State Security Agency (BIA) members, but the Code does allow people who have served terms of up to four years imprisonment to go undercover as well. Milan Skulic, one of the authors of the new Criminal Code told Blic “What is of the utmost importance is the fact that undercover investigators can be engaged in operations only via a court order.”

MUP introduces undercover investigators

Spasojevič has drafted an expert analysis of the legal provisions pertaining to the institute of undercover investigators.

The State prosecutors’ media advisor, Tomo Zorić, said that thus far, undercover agents had been engaged in the investigation of the so-called road mafia case.

The newspaper quoted its sources from MUP that police members had been training to become undercover investigators ever since the institute was included within the Criminal Code in 2001.

Provisions pertaining to undercover investigators were amended in 2002. According to Spasojević, the latest Criminal Code due to come into force in 2009, will contain these provisions as well, but some changes have to be made.

“A convicted person can by no means become an undercover agent, this status can be assigned to a person belonging to another state’s police, or vice versa, meaning that our own investigators can operate undercover abroad,” he added.

The new Criminal Code says that undercover investigators need not be MUP or State Security Agency (BIA) members, but the Code does allow people who have served terms of up to four years imprisonment to go undercover as well.

Milan Škulić, one of the authors of the new Criminal Code told Blic “What is of the utmost importance is the fact that undercover investigators can be engaged in operations only via a court order.”